jsday 2012 – Igor Wiedler

Igor Wiedler

Bio

Igor Wiedler has been a contributor to phpBB for over five years, currently as a core developer. He recently joined the Symfony community and made several contributions to the Symfony2 core and other projects in the ecosystem. He also became co-developer of the Silex microframework after making some major contributions to code and documentation. Igor lives in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Talks

Realtime Web Apps with WebSockets

Pushing data from the server to the client as events happen has not really been possible on the web so far. While there have been some workarounds for this issue, most of these were hacks. Luckily, there is an upcoming W3C WebSockets standard. This talk will discuss use cases for WebSockets, show you compatibility issues/fallbacks [...]